Comment 15 for bug 319717

Did you check the time when you plugged in the monitor? We would only be interested in those lines in /var/log/kern.log that appear at the time you plug in your monitor (if any). If you type `date` on the command line just before you plug it in, you can see next time you boot if there are any lines from the following seconds.

About the driver update: The updates to intrepid only fixes specific problems. The 10.3 was supposed to fix the problems detailed in bug 316672, and everything else is the same.

It would also be very useful if you could confirm that this problem also exists in Jaunty, which you can do by using a LiveCD. There is a recent alpha (alpha-3) at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/9.04/ . The intel-driver in Jaunty was updated yesterday (from 2.5.1 to 2.6.1), so maybe the latest daily live at http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live is a better option (unlike the alpha, it hasn't been tested for basic functionality, though).